Tag: fire

LONGUEUIL – Three people from the same family died Saturday in a major fire in Longueuil, leaving an 11-year-old child orphaned. The firefighters had found these three unconscious people on the top floor of 240-246 rue Toulouse, near rue Plessis. They were taken to hospital in a serious condition and declared dead soon after arrival. This […]

In the San Francisco area, café terraces frequented by Google employees and other tech giants are usually crowded at lunchtime. Today, they are mostly deserted because of the pollution caused by fires. A few passers-by, some wearing a mask on their faces, crowded Monday afternoon to enter the shops, to avoid the acrid stagnant air outside. Although […]

At least nine people have died in a fierce fire that has raged since Thursday in northern California, while further south, the famous resort of Malibu is threatened by another home that is spreading rapidly. “It’s my sad duty to confirm that we now have a total of nine dead,” Korey Honea, the Butte County […]

An explosion and a major fire broke out at the Irving refinery in Saint John, New Brunswick on Monday. No casualties have been reported. The Canadian oil company confirmed that a “major incident” occurred in the morning. “We assess the situation and provide information when it becomes available,” the company simply wrote on his Twitter […]

DELTA, BC | For some mysterious reason, a man entered a police station in Delta, a suburb of Vancouver, on Saturday, where he set about setting fire to a couch in the lobby. According to the local police, the man committed his mischief at around 1:30 pm The flames started to trigger the sprinkler system and […]

A young arsonist who lit seven fires in one night was finally sentenced to two years in prison on Wednesday after running away for four months. Cristian Andres Medina Bolanos would normally have spent the summer in the shade because of the crimes he committed in the fall of 2016. The 26-year-old, however, was able […]

Tens of thousands of hectares have gone up in smoke since mid-July in California, the flames taking advantage of the drought and high temperatures to spread in hard-to-reach areas, but firefighters have made some progress over the past few hours. the record blaze. Weather conditions are expected to remain favorable to fires at least until […]

More than 14,000 firefighters from all over the United States and even Australia and New Zealand fought the huge fires that devastated California for nearly a month, especially the largest ever in that state. Western coast. Beaten just a few months ago, the record for the most destructive fire in terms of area burned fell […]

Missing since last Monday, the twins Sophia and Vassiliki are among the 88 victims of the violent forest fires that occurred in Greece this week. Actively sought after by their father, the nine-year-old girls had become one of the symbols of this drama. The girls were en route to the beach at Mati when the fire […]

ATHENS | The Greek government announced on Thursday night that it has filed a “serious case” that could indicate that the fire that killed more than 80 people on Monday east of Athens was of criminal origin. “A serious element has led us to open an investigation” after the fire of Mati, announced at a press conference the […]

Authorities and residents of the resorts of Mati and Rafina, east of Athens, ravaged by deadly fires, feared Tuesday night that the official toll of 74 dead and 187 wounded is heavier, firefighters looking for people stranded in charred houses or cars. The disaster described as “national tragedy” by many media in the country, took […]

ATHENS | The balance of fires around Athens has increased to 60 dead Tuesday, told AFP Myron Tsagarakis, councilor of Rafina, chief town of the seaside area ravaged by fires. “We counted 60 deaths,” he said, confirming information relayed by local media, while the government still gave the figure of 50 confirmed dead. “Fire Flame” It […]

The violent fires that ravaged Monday around Athens have caused “more than 20 deaths” and “more than 104 wounded,” said the night the spokesman of the Greek government, Dimitris Tzanakopoulos. Most of the victims were trapped in the seaside resort area of ​​Mati, 40 km north-east of Athens, “at home or in their cars,” he […]

The Hearst Fire Department and the Ontario Provincial Police have been notified of a fire in a recreational vehicle on Thursday, July 19, behind the Husky gas station. Gladly, no one were injured. So far, firefighters did not know the cause of the fire. The vehicle was plated from Alberta. Main Photo Credit: The Media of […]

Tortillas were a big surprise for firefighters in the city of Austin, Texas, when they suddenly caught fire last week in the yard of a factory. Firefighters were called to put out a fire that had started, unexplained, in boxes stored in the yard of a tortilla factory. According to CNN, the boxes in question contained […]